Aids 'a black disease', summit told

It is time for the African-American community “to face the fact that Aids has become a black disease” and find ways to defeat it, said the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People at the international Aids summit in Toronto, Canada, yesterday.

Julian Bond, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and other powerful African-American leaders called on their own community to accept responsibility for ending the devastation of Aids, which has claimed more than 200,000 black Americans since the epidemic began 25 years ago.